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DECORATING
P’s
Print out the large letter P pattern and use it to make large
P shapes for your children out of heavy paper. Here are a few
suggestions for how your children could decorate their P’s.
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Use pink and purple markers or paint daubers to make poka-dots. |
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Glue on peanut shells. |
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Glue on colorful poms. |
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Glue on pussywillows. |
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POTATO
PRINTS
Be sure to make P place mats with your children while studying
the letter P. |
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Set out large sheets of construction paper. |
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Have your children either stamp P’s all over a sheet
of paper or cut out capital P’s from magazines and newspapers
and glue them all over their place mat. |
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Cover place mats with clear contact paper, if you want
to reuse them. |
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PUFFY PAINT
Here is a fun puffy paint to make while studying P. |
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Place 2 Tbsp. shampoo, ¼ cup liquid tempera paint
and ¼ cup water into a bowl. |
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Using a hand blender, whip up the mixture into a puffy paint. |
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Let children spoon some puffy paint onto a sheet of finger
painting paper and finger paint. |
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This paint will only stay puffy for 5-10 minutes.
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| ADDITIONAL “P”
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Set your art area up with all P art materials,
such as:
| Paint |
Paper plates |
Pipe cleaners |
| Pasta |
Play dough |
Poms |
| Paste |
Pine cones |
Paper |
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PING
PONG SOCCER
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Place a ping-pong ball in the middle of a small
table. |
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Have one child stand on either side of the table. |
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Now using only their mouths, have them blow towards
the ping-pong ball. |
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The person who blows the ball off the opposite
side of the table, wins. |
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You may want to place a strip of tape across
the middle of the table to show sides.
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PIE PUZZLES
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Set out four paper plates on a table. |
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Then take four other paper plates and cut one in half,
one in 4 equal sections, one in six sections and one into
8ths. |
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Mix up the cut sections and let your children
take turns placing the pieces onto the four plates, to
create whole pies. |
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Before cutting the 4 plates, you could
decorate them to look like pies if you desire. |
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HOT POTATO
You will need a group of children for this activity.
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Have children sit in a circle on the floor. |
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Hand a clean potato to one child. |
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Play some music. |
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Have children pass the “Hot Potato” |
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Children pass the potato quickly, because no one wants
to be holding the potato when the music stops, because
that child must leave the circle. |
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Turn with your back to the children and turn music
on and off. |
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The last child sitting without the potato, is the winner.
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MUSICAL PILLOWS
This game also needs a group of 4-10 children. |
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Instead of using chairs, place pillows in a line on
the floor. Set out pillows for everyone, except one. |
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Again play some music, as the children
walk around the pillows. |
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When the music stops, everyone sits on a pillow, the
child who has no pillow is out of the game. |
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That child, then takes one of the remaining pillows
and sits on it out of the area of the game. |
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Continue the game until there is only one child left
on a pillow. |
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P STORIES
Look at the library for stories to read to your children
are about P things or characters, such as; Princes and
Princesses, Parrots, Planes, Policemen, Parties, Pancakes,
Pumpkins. |
P NAMES
Make a list with your children of all the names they can
think of that start with P. Have them each choose a P
names for the day, such as; Patty, Pat, Patsy, Peter,
Paul, Paula.
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P OPPOSITES
Here are some words with P opposites:
War – (Peace)
Flat – (Puffy)
Ugly – (Pretty)
Dull – (Peppy)
Push – (Pull)
Week – (Powerful)
Colorful – (Plain) |
PUMPKIN SEQUENCE
CARDS
These picture cards will help your child to understand sequence,
plus beginning, middle and end.
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Take four plain index cards and draw the
story of growing a pumpkin. |
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On the first card, draw the ground with a small seed
in the dirt. |
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On the second card, draw a small plant with two leaves
growing up out of the dirt. |
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On the third card show a large plant with large green
leaves and yellow flowers. |
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On the fourth card, show a large orange pumpkin growing
where the flower once was. |
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Mix up the cards, and have your children take turns
placing the cards in order to tell the story of how a
pumpkin grows.
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PICKING UP P’S IN MY PAIL
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Make up some P picture cards, using index
cards. Draw on pictures such as; plums, peaches, peas,
pears, pennies, pancakes, peanuts, peppers, pickles, etc. |
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Place the pictures down on the floor. |
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Walk around the room holding a pail and
have your children take turns picking up a P picture to
sing about. |
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“Picking up ______ and put
‘em in my pail.”
“Picking up _______and put ‘em in my pail.”
“Picking up _______ and put ‘em in my pail”
“Way down yonder in the P picture patch!” |
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P ANIMALS
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Have your children help you think of pets that start
with the letter P, such as; ponies, puppies, parrots,
pigs, parakeets. |
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Then continue the activity by discussing all P animals.
Have children look through animal books to find ones that
start with the P sound, such as; panthers, pandas, polar
bears, porcupines, peacocks, etc.
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| OTHER DISCOVERY PROJECTS FOR P |
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Plan a project of making paper. |
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Learn about the Prairie or Pond life. |
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Investigate Pine trees and pine cones |
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Discover all the wonderful items made from peanuts |
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P PIES
Let your children help you make some P pies, such as, pumpkin,
pecan, peach or pizza.
PARTY P SNACKS
Serve peanuts, pretzels, or popcorn for snacks.
PEANUT BUTTER
Make your own peanut butter by blending peanuts and peanut
oil together in the blender.
COOKING WITH P
Let your children help you make pancakes, pudding or popsicles.
PLAN A P PARTY
Set out paper plates, paper cups, place mats, pickles, party
mix, pizza and punch.
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